A leaked manual confirms that these HTC Incredible spy shots are likely the real deal, or close to the real thing. (Source: Android Central)

A page from the leaked manual is seen here. The phone, on the verge of launching, will bring the best hardware currently on the market, easily surpassing the iPhone in form factor, processing power, camera, and more. (Source: Android Forums)

The Incredible is now reportedly in Verizon Wireless's number transfering machines, ready to begin processing the scores of buyers that await. (Source: Android Forums)

The HTC Incredible looks to take on the iPhones and Blackberries in the battle for smart phone dominance

DailyTech previously
reported that Verizon stores should soon be getting shipments of
HTC's latest and greatest Android smartphone, the
Incredible. Now more leaks reinforce the tip we got from
Verizon techs. AndroidForums has
posted a leaked
manual and the forum also has a
post showing the HTC Incredible in Verizon's CellBrite
machine, which transfers phone numbers between handsets.

The
HTC Incredible brings some powerful hardware to America's largest
network, Verizon, and should help Android continue its campaign of
rampant growth.

The phone, according to the manual and
multiple sources, packs a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm
and is powered by Google's multi-touch and multitasking capable
Android 2.1 OS. The phone will have an 8-megapixel camera with
autofocus and dual LED flash. It offers 8 GB of internal
memory, but one-ups the iPhone by offering up to 32 GB of swappable
microSD storage.

There's support for push email via Gmail and
Microsoft Exchange, support for Flash Lite 4.0 (with Flash 10.1
support coming soon), and access to the Android
Marketplace's 42,000+ apps.

For now the HTC Incredible may enjoy a short run as
the top handset in the market in terms of hardware. The fourth
generation iPhone, coming this summer (likely on June 22) is
expected to fall close to the Incredible in terms of hardware.
Its rumored to pack a higher resolution screen, a faster processor
and more. Ultimately, the phones will likely be pretty evenly
matched, with each having some minor advantages. However, HTC's
Incredible will likely have one major advantage over the iPhone 4 --
it will be released two months earlier.

Apple is obviously
pretty nervous about the HTC's Android army -- the Nexus One, Hero,
and Incredible. It has filed a lawsuit claiming HTC ripped
off over 20 of its iPhone patents. It is trying to block
all imports and sales of HTC Android handsets in the U.S., an
ambitious, but unlikely legal goal.

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There are trade offs with every carrier. Verizon may not be as fast as AT&T or TMo, but I can get 3G signal nearly everywhere. AT&T and TMo cannot say the same. The speed of your network means nothing if you cannot get decent signal.